NORFOLK,
Va. – (Dec. 14, 2005) – Renowned military history
author Bruce Linder will discuss his new book on the region’s
naval history at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, in the TCC Roper Performing
Arts Center. The former naval officer who commanded a guided missile
frigate and two major Navy bases will share insights from Tidewater’s
Navy as part of TCC’s American History Lecture Series.

Linder’s first book, San Diego’s Navy, was published
by the Naval Institute Press and won the San Diego Book Award
for best nonfiction book of 2001. Tidewater’s Navy was published
in fall 2005. He has written more than 30 articles for such publications
as the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Naval History, Traditions,
Jane’s Navy International, Military History, Surface Warfare,
Naval Forces and Shipmate. He received the U.S. Naval Institute’s
Arleigh Burke Literary Award and was a finalist for the Naval
Institute’s Colin Powell Literary Award.

The son of a Navy admiral, Linder holds a B.S. in physics from
the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received his commission in June
1971. He accumulated 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy, rising
to the rank of captain. While on active duty, he took part in
combat support operations during the Vietnam War and in various
operations in the Persian Gulf. He commanded the guided missile
frigate ELROD (FFG-55) and two major Navy shore commands, Fleet
Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center and San Diego Naval Training
Center.

Linder holds a master’s degree in oceanography from the
University of Michigan. He studied for a year as a federal executive
fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1997
he joined the firm of Booz Allen Hamilton, where he leads technology
consulting assignments as a principal on projects that involve
advanced communications and naval strike warfare.

His books will be available for purchase and signing after the
talk. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the Hampton Roads
Naval Museum and the American History Teacher-Scholars Program.

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The American History Lecture
Series is a project of the American History Teacher-Scholars Program,
a joint initiative of Portsmouth Public Schools, Norfolk Public
Schools, and Tidewater Community College. The program is funded
through the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History
2003 Grant Award.

Tidewater Community College
is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth
of Virginia, enrolling more than 36,000 students annually. The 37th
largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC
ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges. Founded
in 1968 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the
college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake,
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne
and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district
in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth
and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-four
percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university
in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC. For more information,
visit www.tcc.edu